Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Contextual Factors in Early Assessment -- Cultural Perspectives for Assessing Infants and Young Children / Michelle Christensen, Robert Emde, and Candace Fleming -- Assessment of Parent Child Relational Disturbances / Roseanne Clark -- Contextual Contributors to the Assessment of Infant Mental Health / Arnold Sameroff, Ronald Seifer, and Susan McDonough -- -- II. Temperament and Regulation in Assessing Disorders in Young Children -- Assessment of Disturbances in Emotion Regulation and Temperament / Cynthia Stifter and Crystal Wiggins -- Assessing Sensory Reactivity in the Context of Infant Temperament / Nathan Fox and Cindy Polak -- -- III. Diagnostic Issues Relating to Classification and Taxonomy -- Diagnostic Issues in Young Children / Adrian Angold -- Conceptual Underpinnings of DC : Zero to Three / Alicia Lieberman, Kathryn Barnard, and Serena Wieder -- Empirically Based Assessment and Taxonomy Application to Infants and Toddlers / Thomas Achenbach -- -- IV. Measurement Issues -- Integrating Clinical and Psychometric Approaches : The Role of Developmental Assessment in Infant Mental Health Evaluation / Walter Gilliam and Linda Mayes -- Observation / Marina Zalenko -- The Preschool-Age Psychiatric Assessment (PAPA) : A Structured Parent Interview for Diagnosing Psychiatric Disorders in Preschool Children / Helen Egger and Adrian Angold.

V. Problems in Early Development and State Regulation : Assessing Disorders with an Onset in Infancy or Toddlerhood -- Sensory Modulation Dysfunction : Identification in Early Childhood / Lucy Miller, JoAnn Robinson, and Debra Moulton -- Sleep Disorders / Beth Goodlin-Jones and Thomas Anders -- Feeding Disorders / Irene Chatoor -- -- VI. Specific Areas of Disturbance : Applying Diagnostic Criteria to Disorders with an Onset the Preschool Years -- Clinical Assessment of Young Children at Risk for Autism / Ami Klin [and others] -- Affective Disorders / Joan Luby -- Anxiety Disorders / Susan Warren -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder / Michale Scheeringa -- Diagnostic and Assessment Issues in ADHD in the Young Child / William Pelham, Anil Chacko, and Brian Wymbs -- Assessment of Disruptive Behavior in Young Children : A Clinical Developmental Framework / Lauren Wakschlag and Barbara Danis -- -- VII. Varied Applied Settings for Assessment -- Expanding the Scope of Infant Mental Health Assessment : A Community / Ruth Feldman and Mire Keren -- Early Detection of Young Children's Mental Health Problems in Primary Care Settings / Lynne C. Huffman and Mary Nichols -- Games Children Play : Observing Young Children's Self-Regulation Across Laboratory, Home, and School Settings / Lisa McCabe [and others] -- -- Epilogue -- Implications and Future Directions / Alice Carter and Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins.

The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together, for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behavior problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents state-of-the-art information on scientifically valid, developmentally based clinical assessments and makes recommendations based on the integration of developmental theory, empirical findings, and clinical experience. Though the field of mental health assessment in infants and young children lags behi.

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